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Google lends hand to new MIT Center for Mobile Learning

Needless to say, it’s been a big week for Google’s mobile interests. However, this time the news doesn’t include Motorola Mobility — at least not directly. The Goog is reaffirming its “long-standing relationship” with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by collaborating on the new MIT Center for Mobile Learning. Hal Abelson, a professor of computer [...]

PCs or mobile phones: where is the future for e-learning?

The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s national papers, in its excellent series on Africa, had an article that really made me sit up. Here are some quotes from the article – try substituting e-learning for the xxxxs ‘It’s part of a phenomenon that has people in Africa adopting new technologies that have been slower [...]

WMUTE 2010 conference in Taiwan

The 6th IEEE international conference on wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in education (WMUTE 2010) started today in Kaohsiung – Taiwan. Under the theme: “Mobile social media for learning and education in formal and informal settings” and for 5 days, this conference is based on shared research interests between the two communities, IEEE WMUTE (International [...]

The IMCL 2010 conference will take place in Sousse

The 5th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL2010, which will be hosted by Sousse University, Tunisia, comes as a response to a certain challenge in the Middle East. It’s about the transformation of all handheld devices into small computers with multimedia, web browsing and gaming capabilities, and desktop work environments with office [...]

Mobile learning & iTunes U

Mobile learning is getting more and more interest these days, as mobile devices are becoming more sophisticated and the infrastructure ready to support multimedia content. A lot of educational institutions are expanding their content delivery by using Apple’s iTunes University (iTunes U). With the 3.0 software update for iPhone and iPod touch, iTunes U is [...]